Kassis Netz / blog

Finally I got my first own raspberry pi \o/ and now it’s time to set it up.
The one I have is from the famous german distributor called Reichelt, which by itself is not that relevant (besides of the nearly unbeatable price), but the
important thing about it is the equipment it is shipped with: an Edimax wireless USB adapter with Realtek RTL8188CUS controller, compatible to 8192cu.

The echo command is very important since it will switch off power management of the WLAN adapter. If you miss this step you will most likely not be able to ping or ssh into the raspberry and existing connections will be lost very shortly.

Remark: adding wireless-power off to /etc/network/interfaces didn’t change anything so this trick didn’t work. I do not have this line added to the config. Basically I didn’t change anything inside this file!

Now either wait a bit - it takes some seconds p to a minute or force connection with

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bash

$ ifdown wlan0
$ ifup wlan0
$ tail -f /var/log/syslog
$

Cancel it when a connection has been established. It should after a while.
If not try rebooting.

System Update

Having a working internet connection we can now update the system. Make sure you’re still root (see sudo su above).